Luke 10:38-42
Martha was not blamable for serving, nor for serving much, but for being distracted with care, when she should have been listening to her Lord. Mary wisely judged that it would better please the Lord for her to hearken to his teaching than to offer him a grand entertainment. What were joints and dishes to him! He had far rather receive an attentive ear than any or all the other attentions which the kindest hostesses could offer him.
She was more spiritual than her sister, and was wise for so being. The active Christian must one day cease from his activity, but the contemplative spiritual believer may continue to sit at Jesus feet throughout the whole of life, and even in death itself. To learn of Jesus and live in communion with him is the highest privilege of saints.
Luke 11:1-13
This is the model for our prayers, and the more closely we copy its fulness, order, brevity, and spirituality, the better we shall pray.
Importunity will prevail where friendship fails; how much more will it succeed with our ever-faithful heavenly friend!
Prayer is not a vain exercise; it is heard and answered. Where it fails there is a reason for that failure. “Ye have not because ye ask not, or because ye ask amiss.”
There were stones near the Saviour which looked like thin cakes of bread. Will a father deceive his child with these?
Some fishes may be mistaken for serpents. Will a father give his child a poisonous serpent instead of a fish?
We do not make mistakes and give our children deadly things when they ask for good things, neither will the Lord refuse us, or send us the counterfeits of blessings. We shall obtain real boons, and that which is the essence of all benedictions, the life of grace, and the soul of holiness, namely, the Holy Spirit. We may ask for him, and we may expect to Receive him in answer to our petition.
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